So... I'm going in for surgery tomorrow...

[Snakebite]

Here's a strange rant for you blokes!


So... I'm going in for surgery tomorrow...

It's nothing epic, just some dental surgery I've been waiting for for over four & a half years!!! 

I'm really worried... About the National Health in general!
Ignoring the fact that this has taken four & a half years to get around to, and that originally it was only one tooth (it's now FOUR!), it's the fact that I can't understand half of the doctors or nurses these days!

Don't get me wrong, I don't give a rats furry bottom where someone comes from or whether they were born here or not, but when they're in this sort of work that can often mean life or death, they SHOULD be fluent and clean in the language they're working in.
Half of them are either unintelligible or so soft spoken that I either can't understand them or can't hear them (I've also got damaged hearing) and they insist on trying to talk to you while they're facing the other way looking at their computer screen!!!

I went in to the hospital last week for my pre-op consultation, that apparently was JUST to look over my disclosure form. That was it, nothing more.
It took half of my work day and over an hour to actually talk about my form (which I'd already 95% filled in).
It should have taken five minutes to do, but the woman (who was perfectly nice) couldn't understand my answers to her questions that I in turn could barely understand...

How can this be effective? I'm going to have to go over it again before I get my General Anaesthetic, to make sure nothing strange has been written down.

I am a smoker, which can cause some other issues with a GA, but I have a condition where I come out of GA in an unusual way.
I 'come around' and can apparently even converse, but I'm not actually conscious. It's my hind brain that's in control, and we all know what that's like! Anything it perceives as a threat is met with an instant response..!
Which means that I can be violent until I become fully conscious. The nurse that did my form simply wouldn't listen to me when I tried to tell her and was more interested in how many cigarettes 50g of tobacco equates to.

I'd rather not have to explain to the cops why I worked someone over after surgery!!! It HAS happened (I will tell the story if anyone's interested)... 

Anyway...
Remember, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt!

[nigel s]

The mind , especially one semi awake is a funny thing.

I had to get used to an ex of mine waking me up by answering the phone at work in the middle of the night...
" Hello environmental health , how can I help ? " .....she worked for the Council.
She would then play out the entire one sided conversation till the call finished , never knowing she did it..roll over and go back to sleep .

I have , very rarely,  got " stuck " in that bit of waking after a dream  ( the opposite effect  to the ex's ) when the mind is still sort of dreaming , so locks the body down so I don,t sleep walk , but I am conscious . Very scary the first time  . WTF....But looked it up and it is a " thing " , now if it happens , and knowing what is going on , it is quite relaxing 
I also , maybe once a year ish , I lucid dream . Where you are dreaming and know it and can control it , again very weird the first time as a teenager . But knowing now as an adult what is going on , I look forward to it . And also strangely , I always wake up refreshed , my best nights sleep....odd.

Anyway, good luck with the surgery , how would they feel about if you went under wearing boxing gloves ?......just as a not so subtle reminder ....

Ho Hum

[The Doctor 46]

Good luck with the surgery tomorrow  Snakebite. Try thinking nothing but nice things as they put you out and you might be in a better place when you come round, if not, can I come and watch please with a ring side seat. 

[MisterDavey]

Good luck with the surgery Snakebite.
Do we just call you "Snake" from Tuesday onwards?


Just let the anaesthetist know about your right hook, they're the one to do something about it.